1728 July 18 (Thursday). Mr. Sewall preach’d Excellently from Ps. 119.115. Occasion, Phillips and Woodbridge Duel.[1] At Mr. Wilsteeds in the Eve. Here was Mr. Joseph Green[2] of Barnstable. The Governours[3] coming in Everyones motions. His Excellency’s Family came to Dr. Cooks this Eve.
[1]Henry Phillips (Harvard 1724) killed Benjamin Woodbridge in a duel on Boston Common, July 3, 1728 and escaped to France. The affair caused much excitement and produced several sermons in Boston and elsewhere. Sibley, VII, 424-429. See Samuel G. Drake, The History and Antiquities of Boston (Boston, 1854), pp. 579-580
[2]Reverend Joseph Green, minister of Barnstable, 1725-1770.
[3]Governor William Burnett.